DIY Paper Bag Flooring

So excited to feature the Domestic Imperfection blog today and their paper bag flooring project! They have done an excellent job laying out the steps and providing a really great tutorial for you guys who may want to attempt this one. I also found a good youtube video you can see here. Now, this is not actually made from paper bags but that is the look you are going for. It’s actually made from a giant roll of craft paper that you can find at the home improvement stores in the painting section.

Most people probably haven’t thought of putting paper on a floor before, but paper bag flooring can actually be a very inexpensive way to cover a floor. The finish is also very beautiful and unique, read this guide on paper bag flooring so you too can get the look at home.

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Hi I was just wondering if anyone had tried this with a coloured paper ? obviously I wouldn’t use a stain and use a clear version. my daughter would like me to try red and I was hoping there might be someone out there with photos or advise on using other colours. thank you

This is just amazing! I want to try this in the kitchen whenever I buy my own house. And thank you Tamsin for the idea of using different colors with a clear stain/polyurethane(?). Awesome, awesome, super awesome!

My girlfriend did two bedrooms and her hallway. Turned out amazing. Her floor looks like leather. She also has two dogs with nails on it all day not one scratch. She said the moat expensive part was the polyurathane

I used to “leatherize” bottles with this process. I also stained the paper with shoe polish to darken it. Don’t know why you couldn’t use any stain to darken. I wouldn’t think there would be a conflict with the polyurethane varnish. Really like it on the floors.

This is really great. To the people who were asking about color, maybe you could use paper bags and then over top of the bags put colored tissue paper. The coloring in tissue paper tends to bleed with glue but I think it would have a really neat end result, even better with using more than one color. Tissue paper is easy enough to acquire at the dollar store. You could also just use an RIT dye on the paper bags, it might be more subtle but it would be similar to using a stain. Just food for thought.